New National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Newsletter

V. Schneider’s take on
the ramifications
of the Affordable Care Act for war tax resisters. I’ve shared some of
my experiences with the Act’s provisions as a low-income, return-filing
resister here at The Picket Line. Ms. Schneider
writes about the challenges of the Act from the perspective of a resister
who does not file returns, and therefore has no clear way of proving that
she qualifies for the Act’s insurance subsidies. Schneider has some
helpful recommendations for non-filling resisters who cannot afford
non-subsidised insurance.

Some notes
on the new federal standard deduction and personal exemption amounts for
the upcoming tax year, on the new
IRS
program that allows you to download some of the files the agency keeps on
you, on a new website that keeps track of the legal aspects of alternative
currencies, and on the troubles of the increasingly overwhelmed and
under-budgeted
IRS.

Jason Rawn’s review of
99
Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns, which begins:
“As you may have just been thinking, three bags of cobras, homespun cloth,
homebrewed beer, and transvestite Welshmen are all things that relate
directly to tax resistance…”

Some war tax
resistance news, including a report of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day
war tax resistance display at a recent anti nuclear weapons protest, a
mention of some recent honors given to war tax resisters Robin Harper and
Joanne Sheehan, and a brief note on the conviction and jailing of Quaker
war tax resister Joseph Olejak.

You can find more about the Olejak case in this recent article from the Times-Union.
Olejak is spending several consecutive weekends in prison, and has
agreed (in a plea bargain) to partially and incrementally pay the
$242,684 the
IRS
says he owes since he stopped paying in
1994.

The group is looking for people who want to serve on its Administrative
Committee.

The War Tax Resisters Penalty
Fund — which helps to reimburse any penalties and interest seized
from a war tax resister by the government — is now under new
management.

The next NWTRCC national gathering is scheduled for
May 2–4 and will be held in
San Diego, California.

Robin Harper
reflects on the development of “redirection” as a war tax resistance
tactic: “I think it is fair to say that the essence and origins of the
very widespread practice today of
WTRs
conscientiously redirecting their refused taxes into channels of
constructive activism, community building, and addressing human needs, can
be traced to [his own case in] 1958.”

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